My most recent read is a non-fiction book by Eugene O'Kelly, entitled "Chasing Daylight". It's one of those books that have been sitting on my shelf for the longest time - like a year or so. It never fails to amaze me how fast time flies. Anyway, on the cover it writes "New York Times Bestseller", so I'm told. But what provoked me to buy this book wasn't that it was on the bestseller list of the NYT, it was the very nature of the book - last words by a dying someone. And it was it isn't a moany and groany piece, or the "you got to live well, what happens if you die tomorrow" in-your-face kind of book. What really enticed me though, was he was the former CEO of KPMG America. The kind of person that lived his life at 100 miles per hour, with much thrill and action and exhilaration in the business scene. The stark contrast of living that kind of life, planning for weeks, months and years ahead, only to hear that he had only 3 months to live.
I'd like to quote something from that I've once heard by someone who's successful in his own right. More or less the same stuff...
"You can do anything if you give your best energy to it. Time truly becomes less important."
It's a paradigm shift, when so much of our work is prized upon how many hours we clock in, commitment is based on the sheer amount of time we're at work. But it isn't time that we're viciously fighting against, think of it, we'll lose. What we got to focus on is on putting in our best, our all, so that time somehow slows for us. Because of sheer concentration and focus, we find ourselves accomplishing more than we could have imagined. Or maybe the same amount of success, but less time engaged in work.
Not done with the book yet, but when I am I probably should pen down my thoughts. Not sure when that would be though... There's just too many things to do, and I do need to believe I can do it all, I can do everything and anything.
